Chaos magick comes to the Unitarians
Our dear friend Doug is tantalizing the Unitarian-Universalist community with post-humanist chaos magick and paganism in a recent piece on the UU World website. The piece is entitled Assembly of a lesser god. Go ye forth and enjoy...
Lately I’ve been trying to invent the worship of a new god. He’s a minor god-I’ve named him Olly-and he . . . Wait. Maybe Olly isn’t the right place to start. Let me back up and begin somewhere else.
I have friends who worship the goddess Rita.
Now, Rita isn’t exactly a heavyweight among divinities-she didn’t create the world and doesn’t promise an eternity of bliss-but she does provide her worshipers with one very useful blessing: urban parking spaces.
My friends worship Rita by singing her hymn (the Beatles’ “Lovely Rita, Meter Maid”) and they give her offerings by putting coins into the expired parking meters of total strangers, saying “Praise Rita” as they turn the knob. In return, they can pray to her whenever they need parking in the city, and parking spaces appear.
Or so they claim.
Now I think this is completely ridiculous, except for one thing: When I ride with my friends, they find parking on the street. When I’m driving, I hardly ever do.
Continued...
And I would be remiss in not pointing you all to Doug Muder's concise and very perceptive weekly news round-up and analysis called "The Weekly Sift". It's one of the better unknown blogs I've seen. It's updated every Monday morning. Add it to your RSS feeds. You'll be glad you did.
Lately I’ve been trying to invent the worship of a new god. He’s a minor god-I’ve named him Olly-and he . . . Wait. Maybe Olly isn’t the right place to start. Let me back up and begin somewhere else.
I have friends who worship the goddess Rita.
Now, Rita isn’t exactly a heavyweight among divinities-she didn’t create the world and doesn’t promise an eternity of bliss-but she does provide her worshipers with one very useful blessing: urban parking spaces.
My friends worship Rita by singing her hymn (the Beatles’ “Lovely Rita, Meter Maid”) and they give her offerings by putting coins into the expired parking meters of total strangers, saying “Praise Rita” as they turn the knob. In return, they can pray to her whenever they need parking in the city, and parking spaces appear.
Or so they claim.
Now I think this is completely ridiculous, except for one thing: When I ride with my friends, they find parking on the street. When I’m driving, I hardly ever do.
Continued...
And I would be remiss in not pointing you all to Doug Muder's concise and very perceptive weekly news round-up and analysis called "The Weekly Sift". It's one of the better unknown blogs I've seen. It's updated every Monday morning. Add it to your RSS feeds. You'll be glad you did.